Going along with the theme of trying to save someone, I feel like it's about saving a friend from something we all eventually do. Turning away from everyone you know and love, "[w]hat's a wolf without a pack?" We end up confiding in and trusting someone we know isn't worth the time, who we know will betray us ("Knives don't have your back"), if only, almost subconsciously, to remind us of the people who really matter.
I absolutely fell in love with this song, and with the album in general. Whenever I get tired of everything else, and I just need to shut the world out or I'm intensely lonely, I listen to this song (and album) on a loop and it brings me back. Emily Haines is a genius.
Going along with the theme of trying to save someone, I feel like it's about saving a friend from something we all eventually do. Turning away from everyone you know and love, "[w]hat's a wolf without a pack?" We end up confiding in and trusting someone we know isn't worth the time, who we know will betray us ("Knives don't have your back"), if only, almost subconsciously, to remind us of the people who really matter.
I absolutely fell in love with this song, and with the album in general. Whenever I get tired of everything else, and I just need to shut the world out or I'm intensely lonely, I listen to this song (and album) on a loop and it brings me back. Emily Haines is a genius.